I assembled the materials, started the dye baths and folks brought more leaves and flowers.

all ready to go!

Three Lovely folk in our circle
joined me in the decorating on Sunday and 2 of them came back for the 'unveiling'.
We followed the directions with the exception of adding purple onionskins
to the cranberry dye bath, which made the brown a much nicer color.

Dipping the raw eggs in water and
dipping the leaves and petals in water made them stick on the eggs more
effectively.

many hands to get them into stockings

And we also found out it was
nearly impossible for one person to slip the stretched nylon over the eggs
delicately designed without moving the leaves and petals… so it became a two
person four-handed process.

into the dye bath

On the ones that we allowed the
leaves and petals to just be random turned out really marvelous.

out of the dye bath 3.5 hrs later

The other thing we did
differently is that we did not rub or wash the eggs until the following day,
when the dyes were completely set. Before we oiled the eggs on the day
after we dyed them, they were lovely but very subtle.

Monday, February 4, 2013

2012
was a difficult year for many of us, containing hardship, loss and challenging transitions. Lots of things got fairly scary for a
while and much that we count as solid ground was shaking and rolling.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

We gathered in the house, since the trees
were still dripping rather enthusiastically in the Great Grove at 7:30 pm
Monday nite. Only three of us, but all wanting to work with the energy of
that particular moon.

We began with blended salt & water
and blessed each other feet to crown then used Dragon Moon Love incense to open
ourselves up to love. We cast the circle & called the Elementals, then
called to Aphrodite to share her love and beauty thru the working. We
started by selecting one card each from the Mary-El tarot deck I just purchased
last month. (I attach a few images from the deck and a
link) The cards each drew
were perfectly right-on to our individual circumstances and we moved into
sharing personal celebrations, since this is the moon of celebration!

Of course, the homemade cookies, fruit
and sangria were shared during our celebration of celebrations. I celebrated
how great I feel about having a group of active FDF students who know all the
FDF casting and calling liturgy by heart! It is so wonderful for me to be in a
group of folks, besides my Coven, that can create sacred space in the FireDrake
fashion.

After we celebrated, since this is also
the time of 'weeding the garden' (as one of our little group pointed out), we
wrote down the things we wanted to weed and turn into fertilizer and burned
them in a little iron cauldron, filling the room with the smoke of
transformation. When all the fire
was out, we scoped up the mingled ashes of our personal ‘weedings’ and divided
them into three little paper envelopes, to be used to fertilize the ‘garden’ of
our choice.

More sangria homemade cookies and
magickal conversation, then we opened the circle and parted.

I love being a Witch and I love that nearly
all of my daily life is about Witchcraft!

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Full Hunter Moon at Dragondale

A magickal time in the Great Grove

Last nite we circled in the Redwood grove around a blazing fire to hunt. We made spears out of green branches of walnut, madrone, oak and redwood ritually harvested by our Priestess and Priest from their own property. In the dark, by the light of the fire and Elemental candles, we selected our spears; chopped down the rough points with a hatchet; sharpened them with smaller blades; hardened them by roasting carefully in the hot coals and then used them as anchors for a guided meditation.

We were led into the forests of our hearts and sent down separate paths to hunt out what has been eluding us. We were left in silence to hunt, capture, cure or adopt what we had hunted and then brought back to the group by the voice of our Priestess.This ritual was created and led by new students to FireDrake Feri and they rock!!! I am gifted with being able to share the Redwood Grove and Alison’s teachings with such amazing folk!

Blessings of the Full Hunter Moon to you all! May what ever has eluded you be now within your grasp.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Some of you may have noticed that I rarely wear blue. It has never been a particular favorite of mine for clothing. Usually, if I am wearing any variation of that color I am teaching or priesting a water ritual or dressing in costume as a Dark Fae.Alison, my beloved mentor, loved blue and wore it a lot.I have decided to begin wearing blue more often, and when I do, it will be in honor of my beloved teacher.The 7th anniversary of her death is this June.I miss her always.